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subordinationist

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who holds the doctrine of subordinationism. The Eusebians or Semi-Arians were one kind of subordinationists.

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Examples

  • Not implying modalism about the Son, this position is harder to refute on New Testament grounds, although mainstream theologians and some subordinationist unitarians reject it as inconsistent with New Testament language from which we should infer that the Holy Spirit is

    Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

  • Moreover, Bauckham's approach often seems to be guilty of "prooftexting": however plausible his interpretation of 1 Corinthians 8:6 might seem in isolation, a glance at the book's index shows that he has made no attempt to take into account and address the subordinationist language Paul uses elsewhere in the same letter 1 Corinthians 15:24-28.

    Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel James F. McGrath 2009

  • Campbell is said to have opted for a return to the Bible that ignores what the church developed thereafter, while Stone, taking a similar approach, eventually became a subordinationist in his Christology and also set aside the substitutionary view of the atonement, on the grounds that neither was Biblical p.80.

    Archive 2008-08-01 James F. McGrath 2008

  • Campbell is said to have opted for a return to the Bible that ignores what the church developed thereafter, while Stone, taking a similar approach, eventually became a subordinationist in his Christology and also set aside the substitutionary view of the atonement, on the grounds that neither was Biblical p.80.

    Review of Stephen J. Nichols, Jesus Made in America James F. McGrath 2008

  • The shift was understandable inasmuch as the older form easily admits an Arian or otherwise subordinationist understanding, whereas the the newer form more reliably connotes the co-equality of the divine persons.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007

  • The shift was understandable inasmuch as the older form easily admits an Arian or otherwise subordinationist understanding, whereas the the newer form more reliably connotes the co-equality of the divine persons.

    On The Same Old Thing Mike L 2007

  • The functional subordinationist is caught upon a dilemma from which there is no escaping: either the subordination of the Son is only in the Incarnation, or the Son is not equal to the Father.

    Against the New Subordinationists 2006

  • Three passages from "On the Godhead", apparently written against Origen's subordinationist views, were quoted by St. Cyril at the Council of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • One may be edified by such considerations without attributing so much sublety to the unknown subordinationist who apparently first arranged them.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Tertullian and Novatian use subordinationist language of the Son

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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